Beautiful lighting on the pistola.

very well done

Wonderful

Fantastic, I can see a lizard face in the smoke Good luck!

Nice, simple but powerful shot !

good looking smoke

this is a great looking shot! That much smoke already with so little of the tip burnt out is almost impossible. I have a wood stove so I've gotten pretty familiar with the strike of matches

Secret is simple
You can see just one match, but there is another two right behind first one.

well done, Photoshop is not the only way to add trickery to an image.

I admire your perseverance, it paid off.